I would add JPEG-XL in addition if you're looking for suggestions for other codecs to compare to. It's very competitive with AV1 and beats it, in my opinion, at higher bitrates.
Admittedly, you're not likely to learn much from this that is useful for your research, but most of the interest from people clicking on this is probably wanting to see the latest developments in image compression.
Admittedly, you're not likely to learn much from this that is useful for your research, but most of the interest from people clicking on this is probably wanting to see the latest developments in image compression.